IBM Operational Decision Manager (IBM ODM) V8.8 provides new capabilities that further enhance the business user experience, simplify platform operations, and enhance performance. Version 8.8 delivers:

New capabilities for Decision Server Insights include:

• New shared aggregates that build on the capabilities of existing local aggregates to define sophisticated aggregations across events that are associated with an entity and can be used across rule agents and multiple time periods.
• New ability to define moving geometry attributes for representing the location of an entity that moves over time, such as a car, a plane, or a customer.
• Additional capabilities for easier testing of solutions without programming with a new business-friendly languages for initializing entities and validating results. It allows developers and subject matter experts to easily create and run tests that initialize entities, submit events and validate results for a solution.
• Enhanced capabilities in the Insight Inspector for reviewing and analyzing the results of solution tests.
• Increased developer productivity with usability enhancements in the Insight Designer.
• Improved performance and resource consumption of solutions.
• Support for additional local languages that allow users to define business rules and global aggregates in languages other than English.

New capabilities for Decision Center and Decision Server Rules include:

• New ruleflow viewer in the Business Console, with task details and intuitive navigation between flows, tasks, and rules
• New content explorer view in the Business Console
• New decision operation editor in the Business Console
• New administrative user interface for managing users, groups and simplified permissions
• Extended support for rolling upgrade and cross version compatibility.

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